Workspaces & how they work

A workspace is a self-contained space with its own monitors, status pages, and members. Multiple workspaces let one organization keep separate clients or environments cleanly isolated — a change in one workspace never affects another.

Manage them under Settings → Organization → Workspaces.

When to use multiple workspaces

• Agencies & MSPs — one workspace per client, so each client’s monitors, alerts, and status pages stay separate.
• Teams separating environments — e.g. Production and Staging side by side without mixing their monitors.
• Business units — keep each team’s monitoring self-contained under a single bill.

What’s shared vs isolated

Every workspace runs under your one organization plan. That plan’s capacity is pooled, not duplicated per workspace:

• Monitors are pooled across all workspaces. If your plan includes a monitor allowance, the total is shared — spread it however you like.
• Seats are pooled. Members are counted as unique people across the whole organization, so one teammate in three workspaces still uses one seat.
• The number of workspaces is itself governed by your plan.
• Monitors, status pages, alert channels, and members are isolated — each workspace only sees its own.

Exact monitor, seat, and workspace allowances depend on your plan. See Pricing for current limits, or Settings → Organization → Billing for what your organization has today.

Create a workspace

1. Go to Settings → Organization → Workspaces and choose Create workspace.
2. Give it a name (and an optional description).
3. Create it — you become the Workspace Owner.
4. Invite members and set each person’s role for this workspace.

If creating a workspace would exceed your plan’s limit, Spectra prompts you to upgrade first.

Workspace settings

Each workspace has its own settings under Settings → Workspace → General:

• Identity — workspace name, domain, and timezone (used for scheduled reports, alert digests, and on-call times).
• Security policies — require 2FA for all members, and optionally allow people with your email domain to request to join.
• Danger zone — transfer ownership or permanently delete the workspace and all its data.

Next steps

• Members, seats & invitations
• Workspace roles
• Transfer ownership